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PHILOXENIA
Definition of PHILOXENIA
noun
Love of strangers; eagerness to show hospitality.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
Borrowed from Ancient Greek φῐλοξενῐ́ᾱ (phĭloxenĭ́ā).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
- Ancient Greek
- English
One recorded step before English.
Deepest traced root
3rd
of 59 source languages in OUTLIER
12.2%
of traced words share this origin (9,477)
branch · 12.2% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PHILOXENIA · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PHILOXENIA in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 6 boards so far.
It first turned up on Day 91, 19 August 2026. The most recent board was Day 123, 20 September 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 32 days.
First found by a player on Day 91, 19 August 2026.
Built from these letters
PHILOXENIA starts with P and ends with A. Sorted, its letters read AEHIILNOPX - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. I appears more than once. It uses X - among the least common letters in written English.
Same letters, different word
One other word uses exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Could you have found PHILOXENIA?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 91 - and most players walked straight past it.
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